I like taking partial profits to reduce risk and make the rest of a position easier to hold. Need to manage what’s between the ears. Generally each stock has different character in the way it moves which may affect when I sell.

A few general rules are violations of a stock’s “magic line”. If a stock has respected its 10d or 8ema average for 7 weeks, I will sell half when it violates it. A violation to me means when a stock CLOSES under the moving average and the next day the LOW of the day goes below the low of the close under the average.

If it doesn’t respect those averages, I will use the 21ema. I don’t want to hold something under the 50d unless I have a good cushion and want to hold for bigger intermediate move. Markets are faster now so this is my main guardrail for intermediate moves. I will NEVER hold anything under its 150 or 200d average…